Essex Fells

Essex Fells is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey. It was founded by the Suburban Land Company in the late 1800s, when they purchased 1,000 acres of land from the estate of an American Revolutionary War general and named it "Essex (in honor of the county) Fells (from the name of company co-founder John F. Fell, whose name also means "hill" or "down"). Essex Fells was incorporated on 31 March 1902, and it became a township in 1981 to take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies; in 1992, it returned to being a borough. Essex Fells had a population of 2,125 people in 2016, and it is a heavily white and Republican borough, having elected a Republican mayor in every vote held since becoming a borough in 1902, and electing Donald Trump with 54.2% of the vote in the 2016 presidential election.